Hat-binding.



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GUSTAV KREMER, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.`

HAT-BINDING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1d, 1.914.

Application filed November 15, 1913. Serial No. 801,106.

To all 107mm` it may conc-cra Be it known that I, GUSTAV KREMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Bindings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a binding for the edges of hat brims that will more readily adapt itself to hat brim edges in the operation of applying it than ordinary material used for this purpose, whereby to increase the facility of attaching the binding in place.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the improved binding', `Fig. 2 shows the binding in plan and end elevation; and, Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hat brim and of the improved. binding, illustrating how it adapts itself to the edge of the brim in litting it thereto.

The essential feature of my invention consists in shaping a ribbon or other piece of suitable narrow ware fabric throughout its whole length with a normal transverse curvature extending from one to the other edge thereof; in the preferred form of the invention, the fabric also has curvature longitudinally thereof.

The transverse curvature of the fabric a is illustrated in each of the several figures of the drawing but best at the right of Fig. 2. The longitudinal curvature is shown in Fig. l, where a piece of the fabric is illustrated as if it were thrown down carelessly with no attempt to give it the longitudinal curvature. Both curvatures may be produced by substantially the one and the same expedient in the course of manufacture of the fabric. In practice, they may be developed by eleva-ting a part of a guide over which the fabric in the loom passes on its way to the takeup mechanism, to wit, the part of such guide over which the intermediate warp threads of the fabric extend, leaving the remainder of the guide, that is, those parts over which the marginal warp threads pass, relatively depressed; however, any other equivalent expedient which in effect causes a greater length of warp to be developed in the intermediate part of the fabric than in its margins, for any given length of the fabric, may be resorted to.

At present, it is extremely diliicult to attach the ordinary binding ribbon to the brim edge of a hat, because the ribbon is flat and consequently tends to slip off of the edge as the work proceeds. Considerable skill is therefore required in order to apply the binding evenly and give the finished work the proper appearance. ln the use of my binding the work of attaching it to the hat brim is greatly facilitated, as will be obvious, because being bowed or curved transversely it adapts itself around the edge of the brim and therefore remains without slipping precisely as adjusted. The longitudinal curvature increases the tendency of the fabric to adjust itself to the edge of the brim, because the fabric follows more or less the curvature in plan of the brim; further, it substantially eliminates the packers which tend to form along the edge of the fabric where the same is of the ordi nary flat kind.

ln accordance with this invention it is unnecessary to form the fabric with one margin shorter than the other in order to make the binding accommodate itself to the circumstance that the one edge thereof must be of less circumference when adjusted to the hat brim than the other edge thereof in order to avoid puckering.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A woven hat binding shaped throughout its whole length with a normal transverse curvature from one to the other of its lateral edges.

2. A. woven hat binding shaped throughout its whole length with a transverse curvature from one to the other of its lateral edges and being also curved longitudinally.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. D. BELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, 'by addressing the Gommssioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

